The Persistence of Race

Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-594-5 (ISBN)

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In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peoples, revealing race as on object of fascination for Germans across several eras.

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras.

Lara Day is an art and cultural historian who earned her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh. She has written on such topics as the artist Anselm Kiefer, collective guilt, and the Wilhelmine Heimatschutz movement, and is she currently preparing an intellectual biography of Paul Schultze-Naumburg for publication. She works for Artsy in Berlin.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Oliver Haag & Lara Day

PART I: CATEGORIES: CONTINUOUS, HETEROGENEOUS NARRATIVES

Chapter 1. The ‘Origin of the Germans’. Narratives, Academic Research, and Bad Cognitive Practice

Ulrich Charpa

Chapter 2. Fantasies of Mixture, Politics of Purity: Narratives of Miscegenation in Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, and Theories of Race (1900-1933)

Eva Blome

Chapter 3. Blüte und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in Völkisch and National Socialist Racial Ideology

Helen Roche

PART II: GERMANY AND INTERNAL OTHERNESS

Chapter 4. Ernst Lissauer: Advocating Deutschtum Against Cultural Narratives of Race

Arne Offermanns

Chapter 5. The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The impact of German Colonial Studies on Young Jewish and Christian Academics’ Cultural Narratives of Race

Lukas Bormann

PART III: GERMANY AND TRANSNATIONAL OTHERNESS

Chapter 6. Race and Ethnicity in German Criminology: On Crime Rates and the Polish Population in the Kaiserreich (1871–1914)

Volker Zimmermann

Chapter 7. Narratives of Race, Constructions of Community, and the Demand for Female Participation in German-Nationalist Movements in Austria and the German Reich

Johanna Gehmacher

Chapter 8. In the Crosshairs of Degeneracy and Race: The Wilhelmine Origins of the Construction of a National Aesthetic and Parameters of Normalcy in Weimar Germany

Lara Day

PART IV: GERMANY AND COLONIAL OTHERNESS

Chapter 9. "The White Goddess of the Masses": Stardom, Whiteness and Racial Masquerade in Weimar Popular Culture

Pablo Dominguez Andersen

Chapter 10. Idealized Australian Aboriginality in German Narratives of Race

Oliver Haag

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables, unspecified; 20 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-594-4 / 1785335944
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-594-5 / 9781785335945
Zustand	Neuware